PSD celebrates less unemployed, opposition remember who emigrated or abandoned – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

It is open war between the majority and the opposition about the unemployment data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The PSD welcomes the reduction in the absolute number of unemployed during the legislature, arguing that there are at least 20 thousand unemployed. But the PS and BE have another reading of the statistics that, they argue, does not reflect the reality of the country, as it includes not, for example, who emigrated or simply given up looking for work.

                     

                          At a press conference scheduled on purpose this morning to comment on the INE data, Vice President of PSD Antony Costa argued that the data prove that “ country is on track” and that Portugal can now “aspire to look to the future with hope” and “more ambition”.

According to the spokesman of the PSD, the INE revised “forecasts which had projected for May “in relation to the unemployment rate,”. This is a downward revision of almost 1% means that at last May we had a 13.2% unemployment rate, but an unemployment rate 12.4%, “he said.

The Social Democrat added that,” compared to June 2011, the first current governance month Majority rule “, there is” an effective reduction in the absolute number of unemployed in Portugal “- from 661,000 in June 2011 to 636,000 in June 2015.

” We have a reduction of more than 20 000 unemployed from June 2011, the first month of this government, and month present, at the end of the current government term. It is also important to underline the fact that, for 29 consecutive months, the unemployment rate has been lowered and the employment rate is growing. Between January 2013 and May 2015, there are 204,000 Portuguese happily working, “he said.

A reading supported by the CDS-PP, by the voice of Nuno Magalhães which he described as” encouraging “the rate of Unemployment 12.4% and said it was “politically relevant” for the first time, is below the left by the socialist government that was 12.7%. The leader of the centrist bench stressed that it was the “biggest downward revision ever made by INE – from an estimated 13.2% to 12.4%”, which “comes to agree with government on only use definitive figures and not provisional, as others have done in the recent past. “

” We came to know that from the beginning of 2013, entrepreneurs have managed to create about 200,000 jobs, which means that there is confidence, there is investment and creation employment, “he said. Nuno Magalhães also highlighted the fact that there “least 105,000 unemployed, of which 22,000 young people, which is one of the biggest problems of unemployment in our country.” But admitted that the unemployment rate “remains high and then be the first, second and third priority of the next government and this majority.”

203 000 jobs “destroyed”
But the numbers are not without controversy and both socialists favor blocs and use common arguments to question the data. The PS, for example, believes that “the number that really counts” on unemployment are “destroyed jobs.” And that, after four years of government PSD / CDS-PP, are 203,000.

The vice-president of the PS Pedro Nuno Santos bench argued that “most of the unemployed is not reflected “in the figures announced by INE, because there is still to add” all those who were forced to emigrate, “the unemployed who have stopped looking for jobs and the unemployed who attend occupational programs. All these people together will trigger, he added, the unemployment rate beyond 20%, approaching even 25%.

BE’s accounts are the same and the list head the circle of Lisbon to the laws, Mariana Mortágua, the official unemployment statistics “did not reflect the whole reality.” Mortágua argued that “three or four realities, including internships, training, people who have given up looking for work because they could not, or emigration, which make these people out of the statistics.” And doing the same accounts that socialists also throws the challenge: “Gather all these people and will come to the conclusion that the unemployment rate in Portugal is not 12.4%, is 25%.”

The deputy left the challenge to “all those men and women who have an interest in this matter” to go “to seek the INE data discouraged, browse the data of part-time unemployed (…) and go to the Institute Employment and Vocational Training seek data from internships and training. “

Mariana Mortágua said he hopes to start discussing” real data and not fictitious data that is manipulated to be able to prove a strategy that is false “.